 they don't know when to abuse him, and when to praise him; I will allow no man to speak ill of David that he does not deserve; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean,...  The Compleat Angler - Page xviby Izaak Walton - 1920 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." . . . He said that Sir John and he once belonged to the same club, but that as he eat no supper, after... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." ... He said that Sir John and he once belonged to the same club, but that as he eat no supper, after... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 604 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 494 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom: but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 442 pages
...that he does not deserve; and as to Sir John, .why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom : but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Great Britain - 1842 - 740 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why, really, I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but, to be sure, he is penurious and he is...tendency to savageness that cannot easily be defended.' We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in Ait favour ; and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - 494 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom : but to be sure he is penurious, and he is...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Fanny Burney - Novelists, English - 1784 - 636 pages
...not deserve; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; biit to be sure he is penurious, and he is mean, and it...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." We all laughed, as he meant we should, at this curious manner of speaking in his favour, and he then... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 770 pages
...said Johnson, " to be an honest man at the bottom ; but to be sure be is penurious, and he is mern, and it must be owned he has a degree of brutality,...tendency to savageness, that cannot easily be defended." In the same magnanimous spirit Dr. Carpenter allows that I have contributed a trifle to science, but... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...that he does not deserve ; and as to Sir John, why really I believe him to be an honest man at the bottom ; but, to be sure, he is penurious, and he...tendency to savageness that cannot easily be defended." — Madame D'Arblay. It is well known that there was formerly a rude custom for those who were sailing... | |
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